PG-13 | 2h 9m | Medical Detective-Drama, True Story | January 29, 1992 “Lorenzo’s Oil” (1992) is a true story about a married couple’s (Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon) refusal to wait for doctors’ and science’s snail-like progress to save their son (Zack O’Malley Greenburg) from the rare disease adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD). Released during the early ’90s when the AIDS epidemic was at the height of its reign of terror, the film more than subtly commented on science’s slow response to that epidemic. It attempts to portray how modern Western medicine and its foot-dragging is inextricably linked to Big Pharma, to the vast detriment of sufferers around the globe. Given all that, “Lorenzo’s Oil” is suddenly current again, with the COVID-19 pandemic or—as this publication chooses to label it—the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus. Dr. Fauci has been revealed to have lied abundantly. Like Sherlock Holmes with a big magnifying glass, we can see …
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